Peter Sarsgaard, Dennis Hopper and Deborah Find the Dying Animal

Peter Sarsgaard, Dennis Hopper and Deborah Harry are joining Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson in Lakeshore Entertainment's untitled film.

The film is based on Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning novella, Dying Animal. Isabel Coixet is directing the Nicholas Meyer script, which follows a sophisticated graduate student (Cruz) who gets tangled up in an erotic affair with her hedonistic professor (Kingsley), a cultural critic obsessed with female beauty. The Hollywood Reporter says several years after the heartbreaking end of their relationship, she returns with a shocking revelation that forever changes his life.

The film is scheduled to start production next month in Vancouver.